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8 problems with the GM Mustard commercialisation shown in GIF
1. India signed the Cartagena Protocol* aiming to protect biodiversity and provide biosafety in 2003, but now, is keen to give the go ahead to GM Mustard (straight road to monoculture)
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Up In the Air: Cyclists See A New Future in Delhi
There are many kinds of cyclists. But when it comes to cycling, we share an unspoken bond – income, colour and origin don't matter.
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India’s Efforts to Tackle Air Pollution – Mere Tokenism
According to the rules, all power plants are required to install emission control equipments by the end of 2017. Reports indicate that, most power plants are yet to take the basic steps towards compliance
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Breathing car exhaust is my daily dose of nutrition!
Nobody is going to tell you this, unless by nutrition they mean deprivation. But there is nourishment in store in what I’m going to share with you today.
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Love for “Nanna Maraa” on Valentine’s Day
Greenpeace India and Jhatka, along with more than a hundred residents and volunteers, turned up on Valentine’s Day for a passionate evening among the trees on Jayamahal Road in Bengaluru.
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India’s Burning Issue
Waste burning is the most inadvisable first choice of waste disposal practice and yet, backyard waste burning and open waste burning near landfills are sights too familiar for an Indian.
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Smothered in Smog
Air pollution has become the biggest environmental concern globally. It has rapidly taken over the space once occupied by issues of poor sanitation and lack of clean drinking water.
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Airpocalypse – Assessment of Air Pollution in Indian Cities
This report shows that deadly air pollution is not a problem restricted to Delhi-NCR (National Capital Region) or even to India’s metros.
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Coal and dirty development in China & India leads to 1.6 million extra air pollution deaths a year
Millions around the world are dying from polluted air, but as countries get richer they usually clean up their air.
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SarSo Satyagraha – People power defers GM Mustard decision
When a government body excludes all the farmers' and consumers' voice to decide on pushing a highly debated technology into their farm and food, it's time for the alarm bells to ring in a democracy. Specially when independent scientists raise concern, farmer unions protest and consumers say no to GM crops very vocally. The major…